On Tuesday 13 June 2006 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Totally borked. Segfaults immediately for me on Dapper. Only the > > > crashdump functionality works - and even that's half broken: it can't > > > actually *send* any of them (crashes too soon). > > > > I'm running dapper amd64, it loads, but there are bits of black and > > wrong parts of the map all over the place. I can see the outline of > > countires, and dots where large cities are, but its a mess, and I > > couldn't find where to submit a bug report. Damn shame, really like > > google earth! > > Its probably because you are running 64bit. I could be completely wrong > here, but I am guessing that google has done exactly the same with GE as > they did with Picasa, in that rather than making a Linux port, they are > using a small customised version of wine that the program uses to run. > So basically it is just the Windows version customised to be more wine > friendly and then all wrapped up in sheeps clothing to appear to be a > linux app. And the last time I looked wine was not a good option on > 64bit distros.
Methinks that it's graphics card related: I'm using SuSE10.1 AMD64 6600GT nvidia. Apart from 3 Seg Faults, its perfect. Good scenery, no visual artifacts, fast (just this makes me question the wine theory), and many reports here of some sort of woes. (panning, tilting as fast as Xt P3 3G) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
